The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 167, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 1, 1957 Page: 2 of 90
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2 A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
**W ' RMB—. Texas, Sunday Morning. December 1, 1957
HER FATHER SAYS
Coed Still Gone;
ABILEN
IKE PANEL Dr. Atwood Dies;
(Continued from Pg. 1-4) D 1 A J
concerned with these questions, KIT e S Def Monday
will use the competent guidance- -
provided by the report and plan
and undertake such action as may Funeral for Dr. E. B. Atwood,
be appropriate to their arms." 83,ve " Baptist educator and
The committee cautioned minister, who died Saturday, will
against channeling American ef-i be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the
forts to meet only military needs. University Baptist Church.
It said Russian advances in other Dr Sterling L. Price, pastor.
technological fields present an will officiate—Two members of
equally grave threat to the nations the faculty at Hardin-Simmons
long-run security and well-being University, where Dr. Atwood' Two distinguished sons- survive
The committee said that to meet, was professor of Bible 25 years, Dr. Atwood. Both are 1926 grad-
both the immediate and the long-will assist. They are Vice Presi- uates of H-SU
F range situation it is dent W. T. Walton and DrRu- Dr. E. Bagby Atwood, full pro- works, facts or fiction, must be
1. Co - sponsoring with local pert . Richardson, president lessor of English at Texas Uni- submitted to censorship before
t. groups a series of 30 clinics in emeritus. versity, is known in scholarly cir-they go to the printers.
K various sections of the country to Burial will be in Elmwood
N encourage the best possible use Memorial Park under direction
Ni of scientists and engineers now of Laughter-North Funeral Home.
. available for the drive to over- Dr. Atwood died Sat urday
take and surpass Russia. morning at Hendrick Memorial
2. Encouraging organization of Hospital where he had been hos.
- state and local groups—represent-
t ing industry, labor, education and
■ the professions—to work toward
(Continued from Pg. 1-Al
- Foul Play Feared
Search for a missing brown- =========
eyed McMurry College freshman 20
. has run into nothing but blind. A
alleys, according to Sheriff J. D. ISAM
Woodard. The S’8" 106-pound PUinel
girl. Margie Naomi Sechrist, has -
been missing since the night of
Nov. 2. ===============
Her distraught parents, Mr. and ___
Mrs ft c Sechrist of Lockney, ■
were keeping a nervous vigil onW
- the second weekend, Saturday.
——night at the sheriff's office. Her “Tab V e
dad fears foul play.
The 18-year-old went to a VFW We h
dance with two boys and girl at
: Sieohn ater that night, and failed
to show up- when the others left
Since then, the only purported
word from her was a mystifying
telephone call which her girl com-
panion of that night received last
Sunday night. The companion,
Barbara Grant of Colorado City,
also a student at McMurry, told
the sheriffs’ office that the call MARGIE SECHRIST
to Abilene was placed from some • • • missing * days
few months ago he taught the'
Builder’s Class at the University
Baptist Church.
For about two years during this
period he taught the Sunday School
lesson to all University Baptist
teachers each Wednesday night
Mrs. Atwood died in 1954.
cles as an authority on linguistics,
and dialect He received a Full-
bright grant for foreign student in
Belgium in 1954, and has also
studied at the Universities of
London, Strasbourg and Marburg,
an der Lahn.
J. Leland Atwood is president
of North American Aviation, Inc.,
Inglewood, Calif.
Other survivors are two grand-!
daughters, Mrs. William Hunt of
Los Angeles, Calif., and Miss Al-
lison Atwood of Austin; and two
great - grandchildren, Katherine
Lee Hunt and John William Hunt j
of Los Angeles.
In Communist China all literary
All Payments to Dec. 10 Earn Dividends
From the 1st
improvement of elementary and
secondary school education, with
special emphasis on science and
mathematics programs.
Supply Data
3 Teaming up with the Nation-
al Science Foundation and other
government and private organiza-
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- had married someone named were Bobby Freeman and James and scientists. engineers
Jimmy; that Jimmy had to work Zant of Abilene the hemiee 4
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not to worry. However, the par-have left the dance with. Vital need for highly
ens have heard nothing from her.
pitalized for the past two weeks.
Prior to coming to H-SU about
1925 Dr. Atwood had been presi-
dent and professor of Bible at
Wayland College in Plainv iew
during 1918-1922. He also had.been
a missionary to New Mexico and
executive secretary of the New
Mexico Baptist Convention.
Born Sept 14, 1874 in Spring
Hill, Ky., he married Mabel Bag-
by June 11, 1903, in Walton, Ky.,
where Doth attended Georgetown
College. He had attended Clintop
College, but received his A B. de-
gree from Georgetown in 1900.
Current Dividend Rate 3
4. Encouraging programs intend
He received his master and
ple and their parents that there is Doctor of Theology degrees from
’ J qualified Southern Baptist Theological
„ .scientists, engineers and support-Seminary in 1904 and 1911
It was the following Sunday ing technicians. " ----,
spectively.
Dr and Mrs.
re-
The missing girl had never night on which Miss Grant said
dissappeared. before, the father she got
said. And he believes she def-she appeared unsure as to the
initely would have called if she origin, the sheriff said.
: were able. He doesn’t believe Always before the ha.
his daughter married He doubts S prore, me has quality of teaching,” and said that wnule on the H-SU faculty Dr
the circumstances of the ca!F asked permission to make any depends "on a substantial rise in Atwood also taught the Men's Bill
with ep a few of foul overnight trips, said the father. a the social and economic status of ble Class at the First Baptist
weensdear. ofifoul radio and TV serviceman in the teachers." That was a call, of Church from about 1942 to 1952.1
& Sent MMd desa sat Floyd County town of Lockney course, for higher pay for them. From 1952 until his health failed a
CCE GS-CCi Dd, 6 LIRAS Md - ========
Atwood first
. . As a corollary to providing Dr and Mrs. wou «kac
Ong distance.al: more scientists and engineers, the moved to Texas in 1905. He pas-
committee called for "a real and tored churches at Quanah, Yoa-
permanent improvement in the kum and Hereford.
qualify of teaching," and said that While on the H-SU faculty Dr.
While on the H-SU faculty Dr
Firestone
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“she might have gone off some-
__where." He confessed there are
no clues remaining as to where
she might have gone, though.
Woodard' said Margie has “no
steady boyfriend, and that she
took no clothes from her resi-
S dence in President Hall at Mc-
Murry, besides what she wore —
a dark skirt and probably a blue
c blouse with her name . mono-
grammed on the pocket
She left her coat and purse in
the car in which she rode to the
Sweetwater dance, the sheriff said.
At the dance, she took a whirl or
——two on the floor with a couple of
men that were unfamiliar to her
companions. She was gone when
Cisco Services
For C. L. Price
CISCO, Nov. 30 IRNS) - Fu-
neral for Charlie L. Price, 63, re-
. tired farmer who died in a Ran-,
ger hospital Saturday after an
illness of two weeks, will be held
, at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Fourth
St. Church of Christ here.
Burial will be in Rising Star
Cemetery under direction of Ham-
ner Funeral Home of Cisco.
Mr. Price was born March 22,
1894, in Wood County and moved
to Eastland County 30 years ago
He had been a resident of Cisco
since 1944. - .
Mr. Price was married June
23. 19)8, to Minnie Strickland to
Quitman
Survivors include his' wife of
Cisco and three sisters, Mrs.
Addie Ferris of Mineola, Mrs.
E J. James- of Fort Worth and
Mrs. Edith Rappe of Quitman.
Dr. E. E. Addy Sr.
Dies at Cisco
CISCO, Dec. 1 (RNS) - Dr.
E. E Addy Sr. 75-year-old father
of a Cisco physician, succumbed
unexpectedly Saturday at 1 p m
from a cerebral hemorrhage, suf-
----ferred at his home here
The senior Dr Addy had prac-
ticed medicine in East Texas for j
many years before retiring in 1944
because of ill health He had
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